Contradiction is an addiction - from philosophical dialectic to the verification of scientific and mathematical hypotheses, and from religious controversy to traditional pantomime exchanges with...

In this final programme of Series 5, Stephen Fry explores the eXtraordinary story of the 24th letter of the English alphabet, starting in ancient Greece and ending with exploitation movies...

Stephen Fry hosts this programme on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.Featuring sick parrots and the cliché crisis that affected the writing of Flaubert, Joyce and...

In this second episode, Stephen Fry explores Intonation. The rollercoaster of language, it is responsible both for the uppy/downy of Welsh and the monotone of the Dalek. It's the hidden...

Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language – as heard on BBC Radio 4.'Current Puns' Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And...

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.‘Fry’s English Delight’ – talking about the mouth, its multiple...

A fifth series from BBC Radio 4 in which Stephen Fry examines, with the help of experts, the highways and byways of the English language. In these four episodes he tells The Story of X: a letter...

Stephen Fry presents this intriguing programme charting the history of knowledge, how technology changes our relationship with it, and how we know what we know.Knowledge. The Google generation...

Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone.There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all...

Stephen Fry’s influential BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Jim Broadbent.Dive into the complete first series of ‘Saturday Night Fry’ – the fragrance-free...

Stephen looks to the future with some predictions. Will robots be able to read novels? How much will our computers be able to understand us? Will English rule -or change? And then there's a...

Stephen Fry hosts this programme on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who, or what, is...

In this third programme of Series 5, Stephen Fry explores the many facets of conversation, and hears how the art of conversation has been interpreted over the decades. We visit a nursery to hear...

A second BBC Radio 4 series of Stephen Fry's witty and incisive programmes looking at the oddities of the English language. Includes four 30-minute Radio 4 programmes presented by Stephen Fry...

Stephen Fry hosts this programme on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.The uses and misuses of quotations are revealed, and there is also a frank confession from a...